Calculus is the foundational mathematics for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML).  It enables algorithms to learn, optimize, and improve by analyzing continuous change.  As we enter this next frontier of engineering technology, it is essential to understand what AI is and how it offers unique solutions to advance the productivity, profitability and performance of the design activities of engineers and architects.  It is important to have a firm grip on the basics of Calculus because it is foundational to AI and other mathematically intense pursuits.  Calculus is used very little by many engineers, and it is problematic that their skills with the discipline may have grown rusty from disuse.  The basics of functions used in Calculus will be revisited in this course.

After completing this course, students will be able to:

·       Describe how calculus and AI work together

·       Explain common functions and their associated graphs

·       Understand combining functions

·       Understand shifting and scaling graphs

·       Describe composite functions and composite AI

·       Recognize trigonometric and periodic functions

·       Understand benefits and potential pitfalls of graphing with software

·       List common actions that can be modeled with exponential functions

·       Describe inverse functions and logarithms

·       Connect various types of functions with their applications in AI